Like that billboard? You paid for it. “Next time you see one of those heartwarming ads telling you to make more phone calls,” says CUB News (Spring 1989), “remember that Bell is asking the ICC to make ratepayers foot the bill for $31 million in advertising expenses next year.”
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If this were a restaurant… “Every day at Juvenile Court great numbers of the public and professional persons are kept waiting, in part because their cases were all set for the same time,” reports a special committee of the Chicago Bar Association. “It is no secret that the private bar does not want to take cases in Juvenile Court because the attorneys complain they must spend the morning or the entire day there for simple matters…. Police officers and social workers who have investigated cases are kept waiting for hours when they could be handling more of their cases in the community. Families with small children spend hours sitting on hard benches with no play area in which to entertain the children.” What to do? “The court should continue to experiment…until it finds an efficient schedule.”
AIDS aids. A University of Chicago survey suggests that AIDS cases in the midwest and among affluent whites may be systematically underreported. According to U. of C. sociologist Edward Laumann, “Middle class white persons with AIDS are often diagnosed by private physicians (who are then expected to report these cases to local health departments), while poorer people are often diagnosed in their contacts with public health agencies…. Given the highly stigmatizing nature of AIDS, it is not at all surprising that those victims with the financial wherewithal to do so utilize the private health care system that can provide them privacy and discreet handling of their affliction”–by failing to report the cases and thus giving the rest of us a misleading picture of the epidemic.
Art accompanying story in printed newspaper (not available in this archive): illustration/Carl Kock.
